Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-23
"A Home of Our Own.

| write this from under my own vine
and flo tree, from beneath q roof of
my own. am a landed proprietor, a
taxpayer, the owner of a bit of ground,
and a house in the freshness and beau
ty of its first painting and papering
and polishing. Ever since our mar
rage, seven years ago, my wife and /
have longed for this day to come. We
have saved and ''scrimped, and hoped
and prayed for it, and at last it has
come to pass. We have paid out hun
dreds of dollars in rent, and been
moved and hustled around from house
to house, and place to place in the no
madic manner too common among
young married people in America.
No one can know with what a breath
of infinite relief [ said last week to
moving day, ''Well, my dear, thank
the fates, this is our last move"
''Well, [ hope SO, for goodness
sake" said Mrs. Dane with marked
force.
And when our two cherished brus-
sells carpets were being cut and slashed
into so recklessly, to fit the par1or and
sitting-room, Mrs. Dane said, CRATE
fully, ''Well, it's the last time they'll
have to be cut, for they are down to
stay now; that's one consolation.
The home we are SO happy in is not
all paid for, but we see our way clear
to pay for it in time, and any kind of
home is preferable to lifelong pay
ing of rent. Young married people
should start out in life with the fixed
determination of putting a roof over.
their heads that they can call their
own; and this is not such very hard
thing to do in these days of loan and
building associations and cheap rates
of interest. Ny interest and taxes are
not much more than half the amount /
have been paying in rents.
1t is difficult to define the feeling
one has in home of ones own. There
is something in being a landed pro-
prietor" that tones one up wonder
fully, and adds dignity and earnest
ness to life. You literally feel that
you are somebody. Life takes on
new meaning and new joys; you have
something to live for and work for.
I actuallyfelt a positive pleasure in
paying my taxes yesterday, and felt
sorry for the poor fellows who haven't
any taxes to pay.
| set out some rose bushes last week,
exulting in the thought that they were
mine and neither they or were sub
ject to the whim or the interests of
some real estate agent, who could
give us thirty days notice and then
turn us adrift
No longer am / member of the
mighty and miserable army of house
hunters. My rent days are done. I
drive nails and tacks, and hammer
and pound when and where / please.
When come home from my office at
night, it is home indeed to me.
And when one has children it is more
necessary than ever that there be a
place for them that they can cali home;
place that they can love and remem-
Der as home throughout all their after
lives. / hope to see the children of my
eight months old baby playing in this
house some day. We have bought
good house because we think we shall
live in this city all our lives, and we
never want to 90 through the miseries
of another family move.
a home of your own is, insist, the
very best investment young couple
can make. 1t is something worth saw
ing. and working, and living for
Zenas Dane in Good Housekeeping.